DJ BK - TAPE #32 Side A

BBE Music presents a brand new remix of the 1982 Rim & Kasa classic, ‘Love Me For Real’, created by the L.A. duo of Denise Love Hewett and Yung Spielburg.

Former New Yorker, now Los Angeles based DJ Denise Love Hewett joined forces with fellow NYC export, musician, and producer Yung Spielburg for the rework of ‘Love Me For Real’, having heard the track on the soundtrack to the 2019 movie ‘Big Time Adolescence’.

“My ears are always ticking for songs to add to my sets to keep them fresh” says Hewett. “I heard it in a film soundtrack and loved it! I started playing it but had an urge to rework some components for a club setting. I called up Lenny (Spielburg) to collaborate on the remix and between both of our visions, we found our way to this awesome result.”

Adding rock-solid House drum patterns and updating the song’s production aesthetic for modern dancefloors, Hewett and Spielberg’s version makes great use of the swirling synths, catchy vocals and unique Latin Afro-Disco vibe which has made ‘Love Me For Real’ an international hit since its 2015 BBE reissue.

Rim Kwaku Obeng - Love Me for Real (Denise Love Hewett Extended Remix)

Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - Guru in the Jungle 

Catalogue No: TMDG 217
Release Date: October 29, 2021
Media: Digital / CDR

Italian based project Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) is back with his new album 'Guru in the Jungle'. In this new release the artist exposes nine brand new and freshly produced tracks under the fundamentals of afro and funk. 

The album has an elegant vibe through all nine tunes, from warm and organic tones, to fusion style and grooves with fat beats and an overall jazz and latin vibe. What is not missing, but mostly dominates here, is the modern deep funk style cooked up well with African and Latin root genres. 

'Guru in the Jungle' gives a pleasant way to listen, feel, breathe and get a groove on with deep and energising songs constructed under a modern mid tempo dance floor concept. 

Audiophile Analog Mastering: Angelos Timewarp Stoumpos at Timewarp Mastering 

Cover Design: Timewarp 

Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - Guru in the Jungle will be available on October 29, 2021 for sale in special edition CDR and digital download at timewarpstore and all digital music retailers across the internet.

Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - Guru in the Jungle

Guru in the Jungle

Vito Lalinga (Vi Mode Inc. Project) - Guru in the Jungle (preview)

This past weekend I hit up Egon's store Rappcats where DJ Shadow was selling some of his vast collection. I missed the opening day but snuck in and out on Sunday with a random high school band record, featuring a nice cover of Freddie Hubbard's "Little Sunflower" as well as some original tunes. That record reminded me I'd been wanting to do a school band episode of Pullin for awhile now, so it was a good inspiration to dig through my crate of very random college and high school music for a couple of my favorites. You never know what you're getting with these records - so many are poor quality recordings or cheesy renditions, but among the many there are some real gems. Hope you dig.

October 26 2021

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 180 (School Band Records)

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In association with DJ Amir‘s 180 Proof Records, BBE Music reissues ‘Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise’, an unreleased gem from Strata Records founder Kenny Cox.

In 1974, Strata Records Inc. was well known in Detroit for their art gallery, live music venue and record label, turning out records by artists like Kenny Cox and Lyman Woodard. In 2012, nearly 4 decades later, Scion commissioned DJ Amir Abdullah to research and create an exhibit based on lost youth culture in Detroit for a new online museum. Familiar with the history of Strata Inc., Amir decided the best way to define the era was through the lens of the labels brief but potent influence on the city’s culture. Inspired by this project, Amir set out to re-introduce the world to Strata Inc. through his own label, 180 Proof Records.

The Lyman Woodard Organization’s Saturday Night Special (1975) is perhaps the jewel of the label, but the LP that was to follow – Cox’s unreleased Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise, is at the same time radical and sublime. It’s a visionary work, inspired by both the innocence and zeal of his 3-year-old son, Philip, and also the culture of Latin America and Caribbean lands Cox admits in the album’s original liner notes that, “oddly enough…I’ve never seen.”

The title track, “Clap Clap! The Joyful Noise” is a frolicking bossa groove awash in the gentle sound of waves one can imagine lapping against the shores of Brazil’s Praia da Fazenda, or perhaps the Taipus de Fora. “Samba de Romance” teems with the mischievous tones of two lovers playing not cat and mouse, but cat and cat (!), until the chase ends in a passionate nighttime rendezvous in sultry island air.

The pulsating bounce of “Island Song,” with its mood set by Moore’s vibrant flugelhorn and the percussion of Ronald Johnson and Nengue Hernandez, is just about everything one would imagine an island song to be, while “Lost My Love” is really “Feel Like Making Love” in delicious disguise and the album’s close, “Beyond The Dream,” is a 13-minute enlivening, reflective odyssey on everything one has lived, and all that remains to be achieved.

This previously unreleased masterpiece by Kenny Cox has been remastered from the original reel to reel masters, along with the artwork, extensive liner notes and never seen before photos.

Kenny Cox - Lost My Love

Ending 2021 with a long set of some of my favorite purchases this past year! (I can't really call most of these "digs"). This episode is a combination of some long-time wants I knocked off the list with some of my favorite new records by both young, incredible artists as well as brilliant veterans like Brian Jackson.

A huge, massive thank you to all the listeners who have tuned in this year, whether new or old. I greatly appreciate you. Special shout to Pipomixes for posting my mixes and for keeping DJ mixes alive for us all still doing this stuff! 

Tracklist: Michel Sardaby, Brian Jackson, Nucleus, JAB, Alex Santos Orchestra, Johnny Frigo Sextet, Garay Trio, Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas, Jimmy Heath, Amanda Whiting, Mankunku Quartet

December 22 2021

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 185 (Favorite Records I Got in 2021)

When Production began on Diverse 3 # little did i know that world events would shape each track as i was writing the songs during lockdown # But it was the death of George Floyd that compelled 
me the most to write a Document of our times joined in the written 
word with music with Irvine Welsh and Stuart Cosgrove to create 
more than music but a message of how we were all feeling at this new great Re set of the planet forced upon us # I looked back to my hero's Marvin Gaye / Curtis Mayfield / Gil Scott Heron and truly felt the hands on my shoulder saying keep on keeping on Son # Be Brave write what you see around this world we all live in # 
But it  was Malcolm X which inspired me the most to put down my pen and paper and Get out there and Join the protests and become part of it and stand up and speak up and protect my Community while others stayed silent # that day in Edinburgh with Cynthia Gentle and Geoff Palmer plus many others on that day 7000 stood strong to say NO TO HATE # is the day i rushed home to write and capture  that emotion and later get the film edits to make a short video of  History
of this city i love Edinburgh standing in unity with the rest of planet in true unity and love in a battle against # evil / fear / hate #

Diverse 3 # information / inspiration # mixtape #  foreword by Lauren Laverne BBC 6 Music

One of two remixes of 'Keep On' from the 2003 Above the Clouds Recordings' single by London production duo the Bone Idols featuring US rapper Aphletik and the UK's one and only Ty (RIP). Pencilled for a release at the time but ultimately never released.

Bone Idols & Aphletik feat Ty - Keep On (Chris Read Remix #1) [Unreleased] (2003)

Back In 2018 I was DJ’ing in Liverpool as part of the annual ‘Sound City’ festival. After my set, a group of enthusiastic people approached me and congratulated me and wondered if I’d heard of Cavendish Music, as that’s who they work for. Being a bit of a record digger, I of course knew of the amazing Cavendish Series, from the late 60’s to the early 70’s, as well as the Boosey & Hawkes albums.
One of the cavendish crew, passed me his card and said to get in touch if I was ever around the Kings Cross region of London, to have a hunt into their vaults and see if anything came to fruition
So that’s what I did!
Ever since, my recent projects (Forty Five LP, 2020 Donuts LP & Figure Of Speech LP) have all contained Cavendish/Boosey samples, and the Cavendish team have been a joy to work with.
Consequently, I wanted to create a tribute by making a full record of material using the incredible vintage sound sources from their library of music, whilst putting my Boca 45 spin onto them from my studio in Boogie Down Bristol.
I hope that you enjoy the sonic results here.
With kind regards
Boca 45
B BLOCK MUSIC LTD
BRISTOL, UK
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Boca 45 Digs Cavendish

BOCA 45 DIGS CAVENDISH 2 MIN TEASER

Dj XS returns to action with a collection of hip house bangers making up the 4th installment of his super successful 'Rap Nuggets' series this time going solo laying down a quality 3 track EP packed full of funked up nugget niceness!

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Dj XS - Knife Shaker (Instrumental Mix)- Rap Nuggets Vol. 4

Having established himself first as a DJ and then as a remixer, @samredmore is now very much making himself known as an original producer of quality global grooves that can light up any dancefloor, carnival or party.

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Tracklist:
Terry Hunter - T.S.O.C. (feat. Common, Mike Dunn, Deon Cole, Chantay Savage, Coldhard, AM7 & Jamie Principle)
LTJ Experience - Feeling Better
Roisin Murphy - Murphy's Law (Extended Mix)
Sam Redmore - Just Can't Wait (feat. Lumi HD)
Dam Swindle - The Break Up (Emma-Jean Thackray Remix)
Bugz In The Attic - Let's See How
Enzo Siffredi & MoBlack - Shikiria (feat. Mariam Zawose) (Day Mix)
Ayala (IT) - Somos Latinos (Vocal Mix)
Sam Redmore - Music Is... (feat. Mr Auden Allen)
Bosq - Song For Ehi (feat. Kaleta & The Ibibio Horns)
Ten City - My Peace Of Heaven (Joe Claussell Demo Vocal Mix)

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Boca 45 is known as somewhat of a Bristol (UK) institution from his early days in the mid 90s selling Golden Era Hip Hop from behind the counter of the seminal Purple Penguin record shop rapidly becoming one of Bristol’s most in demand DJs for a quick fire mix of bone-cracking breaks, hip hop, coruscating funk, rock and heavy soul these are all of the musical ingredients which make up Forty Five.
Once Scott Boca got to grips with the studio from the early 00’s he’s had continuous releases, remixes, DJ mixes on labels such as Island/Universal, Domino Recordings, Ninja Tunes, Grand Central, Illicit, Jalapeno, Unique & more under a slew of aliases.
At the advent of Scott Boca’s 45th year on planet Earth he decided to hone everything he’s learnt and loved into one killer solo record.
When making Forty Five, Boca pulled together friends, family and footie mates to make a record that would deserving stand as his musical autobiography - that cast list included his Bryan Munich teammates (Geoff Barrow and Billy Fuller from Beak, Ben Salisbury), Kasabian’s Sergio Pizzorno, NYC MC Emskee, New Zealander soul singer Louis Baker and Malachai bandmate Gee.
Forty Five is Scott Bocas life story in twelve cuts; the soundtrack to an immersion in sound, it’s an honest personal statement. His Twin teenage Sons designed the Forty Five Logo, Boca wrote the comprehensive sleeve notes personally breaking down the back ground of each track as well as making the inner collage using images from all of the collaborators on the LP.
The first people to hear the record outside of a close circle of friends was titanic U.S. record label Mass Appeal (home to DJ Shadow, Nas, Run the Jewels and the J Dilla catalogue).
They immediately offered and signed the record in a worldwide deal.
Previously Scott Boca provided a track for the Banksy Movie “Exit Through The Gift Shop” & in 2015 the elusive artist personally requested Boca to DJ with his 45s at the opening night at his Dismal Land Show.
2018 saw Boca release Bocas Club Donuts - a series of five highly covetable, DJ Friendly iron banger 7’’ singles which each sold out within a matter of hours to a rabid set of collectors via only announcements via his own social media channels.
Now on to 2019 Boca is ready to hit the clubs and world wide festivals armed with a heaving box of Vinyl Wax to spread the good word of Forty Five to whip crowds into a frenzy with his crazy collection of hot 7'' donut Forty Fives.

BOCA 45 DIGS CAVENDISH 2 MIN TEASER

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